I was mod of /r/StarTrek for a decade and I have yet to see a single situation where a vague “bad writing” complaint wasn’t serving as cover for a (let’s just say) less socially acceptable criticism.

If you’re being honest about your feelings then my advice to you is be significantly more concrete with exactly what it is you are criticizing about Kurtzman, or people are going to assume you’re obfuscating your true feelings.

Let me get this straight, Paramount was recently purchased by the Ellisons yet you feel the greatest threat to Star Trek is… Alex Kurtzman? Wait wait, let me guess, you don’t like how political Star Trek suddenly became this past decade?

I agree completely, and I think too many online spaces make room for cynicism not realizing that it contributes nothing, and ruins the experience/eventually pushes out of anyone who isn’t cynical.

When I was a mod on /r/StarTrek we had a rule (it’s also thankfully a rule here) “be constructive” which was basically “Criticism is OK but cynicism is not. If you want to present ‘criticism’ you need to behave like a real critic and cite examples, not just rant”. And let me tell you that rule really upset a lot of folks who felt that had a right to pee in the communal pool.